AAA: 'Strict enforcement area' includes all major roads in Arizona

[Newsjock]

So I was planning a roadtrip with AAA's online TripTik site, and I got an "Advisory!" which apparently has been in effect since February 2009, and offering me information on how to reroute my trip to avoid the affected area. Turns out that the area in question is the entire state of Arizona:

AAA's Strict Enforcement Area designation means that AAA wants to warn motorists that traffic laws are being enforced to an unusually strict degree by local and/or state law enforcement. The designation is not a censure of the enforcement effort nor is it intended to be derogatory in any way. It is simply a "heads up" to inform motorists that speeding and other violations are enforced more tightly in this area than what drivers are used to in most other parts of the country.

The following areas have been designated as Strict Enforcement:

All major roads in the state of Arizona
All major roads within Washington, DC
I-55 in Arkansas (Jct I-40 N to MO state line)
US 19 and US 27 Alt in Chiefland , FL
US 98 in Gulf Breeze, FL
I-75 in Lowndes County, GA
I-65 in Bowling Green, KY
US-54 in Curryville, MO
US-19 in Summersville, WV

[villager]

1. Had to drive into Tempe recently from L.A. -- the I-10 from Cali to Phoenix

...is absolutely aswarm with highway patrol officers (one assumes they need to write many tickets to justify the expense of keeping them all parked there), as well as their speed cameras on the interstate...

My guess is that tickets to out-of-staters is quite the cottage industry there...

[2Design]

2. in 2006 on interstate 10 going cross country - there were at least four stops - check points

way more than I had encountered 30 years ago - seems texas was worse

[DesertFlower]

3. get a radar detector.

[lonestarnot]

4. Are they all looking out for those driving while browners?

[enlightenment]

5. No - I suspect they're just looking for easy revenue.

It is VERY hard not to develop a lead foot when driving in Arizona - long, long stretches of mostly straight road . . .

*note to self: cruise control*

[blondeatlast]

6. Chalk up one Arizona LE issue NOT related to racism and good ol'boyness.

That warning has been in effect for at least five years. The interstates here are thick with highway patrol. It's not at all new.